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Poll Question: Who Is The Greatest Artist Ever?!!!
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I have two candidates, both of recent exposure: one, mexican masterband RBD, a group of youngsters full of talent, musical knowledge, professional skills, beauty, sex-appeal, I mean, truly they are above the rest. You should see their vocal approach toward their songs: it´s a mix of baroque-poliphonic singing mixed with dodecaphonic and serial elements learned from Webern, with some grindcore elements thrown in for good. You should pay attention when the two female singers get the spotlight, then the harmonic balance that the masculine singers give to the music is just worthy of a place of honor in modern music theory. The other artist is reggaetton´s master mind Don Omar: before Daddy Yankee, there was Don Omar. His hit "pobre diabla" easily outclasses any music since Guilliame De Machaut.
 
But all of these PALE in comparison to MASTER OF MASTERS EL GENERAL. This center-american ethereal artist crafted some of the best lyrics ever, comparing women to coca-cola bottles and using the common metaphor of the banana to refer to a certain body part, but he gave us more than poetry: he gave us music of unexpected simplicity yet unearthly beauty, taking the language of the notes to new heights that even Bach and Beethoven wouldn´t be able to reach were they alive to listen to the master´s work.
 
This even tops Arjona, my most hated artist of all time.
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the best artist ever are the tv,press,politicians etc that change the real reality .to a false or not real reality,but in this list the more important are the BEATLES , and some of the others are good for some people with all my respect ,but not for me

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I don't care what Billboard says. To me the greatest band will always be...um... it depends on my mood, right now it's Art Zoyd.
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IMHO Elton John... Not just for ranking, hits and that stuff. I really think he's a great composer and a honest pop artist...
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Why aren't classical composers on here?
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Originally posted by progadicto progadicto wrote:

IMHO Elton John... Not just for ranking, hits and that stuff. I really think he's a great composer and a honest pop artist...


And he was in Gentle Giant
     

Really, he was... I read it somewhere
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Michael Jackson for "Thriller" Clap
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No contest. From that list, only Presley can approach the influence of The Beatles.
And there's so many other great artists missing - Buddy Holly, Hendrix, Brian Wilson to name but a few. They may not compare sales-wise but they are all far superior to the likes of Mariah Carey.



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    I voted for the Liverpool moptops of course - the Fab Four! but leaving personal preferences aside i would say Elvis, I think even The Beatles would have voted him top artist of all time!
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Originally posted by Chus Chus wrote:

Originally posted by progadicto progadicto wrote:

IMHO Elton John... Not just for ranking, hits and that stuff. I really think he's a great composer and a honest pop artist...


And he was in Gentle Giant
     

Really, he was... I read it somewhere


Wasn't he rejected from Gentle Giant?
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QUEEN: The best band ever for Prog and non Prog listeners.

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Bob Dylan, anyone?
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Originally posted by Zargus Zargus wrote:

Bob Dylan, anyone?



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The man who influenced the Beatles (when they met him, of course).
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Except for The Beatles I refuse to take seriously these (for many people great) artists on the list.
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Man, that poll sucks! My vote would be Pink Floyd. But where is King Crimson? Genesis? THe only thing closest to prog on that poll is the Beatles, and they only had one song that was even close to prog, and that was A Day in the Life. And quite a few on that poll have sucky music also.
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Originally posted by Chus Chus wrote:

Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

Juanes without any doubt owns any musician ever in every way. La Camisa Negra is such a proggy masterpiece. It embodies all the best things genres from Zeuhl to neo progressive to Death metal have to offer. It is the ultimate piece of music ever written.


Dude... what the hell are you talking about... Juanes is mainstream compared to Arjona's jazz-fusion band
      


Ricardo Arjona. Great lyricist. Thumbs Up

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If you really think these are the best ARTISTS ever, then the world has been a much less interesting place than I thought. Say "20th century pop-music artists" or something like that.... ARTIST EVER means from all time, and believe me, all of these put together don't even reach the top 200.

Besides, artists like MAriah...please, she sings, I give you that, and she SELLS, but does she write her music? She's a PERFORMER....

But if we HAVE to pick one just for this poll's sake, let's say Elvis or The Beatles.
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Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

Juanes without any doubt owns any musician ever in every way. La Camisa Negra is such a proggy masterpiece. It embodies all the best things genres from Zeuhl to neo progressive to Death metal have to offer. It is the ultimate piece of music ever written.
 
Did you know Juanes was in a death metal band in the mid 90s. 
 
 
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Originally posted by martinn martinn wrote:


Originally posted by Chus Chus wrote:

Originally posted by progadicto progadicto wrote:

IMHO Elton John... Not just for ranking, hits and that stuff. I really think he's a great composer and a honest pop artist...


And he was in Gentle Giant
     

Really, he was... I read it somewhere
Wasn't he rejected from Gentle Giant?



He was rejected by King Crimson (I think he tried out for the Lark's Tongue line-up) and he was with Gentle Giant while they were still Simon Dupre and the Big Sound.
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er...Claude Monet...Big smile
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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